Health
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
The food chains are preparing to raise prices as early as next week. The price index of Stornext, which increased in the first 9 months of this year by 4.4% compared to the same period last year, is expected to jump in the next update, in view of the demand of various suppliers, including Sano, Unilever, Terra, Gad Dairies and Diplomat Company, to raise the prices of their products at a rate that reaches up to 25%
Oct 19, 2022
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
The problem of overcrowding and the rate of population growth in Israel is one of the fundamental problems discussed in recent years and is a real challenge for education, transportation, housing, and other systems. Another significant challenge of the increase in the population and its accelerated aging is imposed on the health system - which must continue to provide the public with medical services of a high level, with reasonable availability and accessibility at the very least. A new OECD report illustrates the magnitude of the challenge or, in less subtle words, the major crisis that...
Oct 19, 2022
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
The Ministry of Health estimated that the next wave of the Corona is expected to be in October or November, right after the Tishrei holidays. This, following the increase recorded in the infection coefficient which stood at 1.05 - indicates an epidemic spreading. "We don't know if this is the beginning of a wave or a hump," said the corona projector, Professor Salman Zarqa. "I hope that at the end of this winter we will be able to treat Corona like the seasonal flu if a new variant does not arrive
Nov 5, 2022
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
State President Yitzhak Herzog said on Monday in his speech at the 27th Climate Conference that "the Middle East is on the brink of disaster." At the conference, held this year in Sinai, Egypt, Herzog said that "Here in Sharm el-Sheikh, I would like to repeat the firm commitment of the State of Israel to zero carbon and to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy by 2050. But Israel is ready to take on a much heavier responsibility. Israel is right to lead the effort for Regional climatic resilience. I intend to lead the development of what I call a 'renewable Middle East', a...
Nov 7, 2022
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
The race to increase the number of medical students in Israel is heating up: the Weizmann Institute of Science is working vigorously to open a new medical school in a unique "boutique" program of physician-researchers (MD-PhD). This is in collaboration with Sheba Medical Center (Tel Hashomer). In the first phase, the program will include only about 40 male and female students per year, and it will be a six-year program intended for graduates of bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees. The research activity will be carried out by the students at the Weizmann Institute, and the clinical...
Nov 20, 2022
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
The Teva Company announced that it has decided to appoint Richard Francis as President and CEO of the company. The appointment will take effect on January 1, 2023. In order to ensure an orderly transition of the position of CEO, the members of the Board of Directors together with outgoing CEO Kor Schultz decided that He will finish his term at the end of December 2022
Nov 21, 2022
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the organization of developed countries of which Israel is also a member, warns the Israeli government and recommends that it not increase government spending in a broad and permanent way, since such an increase may increase inflationary pressures and result in the need for a tightening of monetary policy, that is to say, Additional interest rate increases - this is what the organization's economists write in an updated global report published today (Tuesday). The organization also estimates that the level of interest in...
Nov 26, 2022
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday evening in Tel Aviv against the new government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, among other things in protest of the reform of the judicial system that it intends to promote. At 7:00 p.m. they gathered in the Habima Square and from there they marched around the city to the Tel Aviv Museum plaza. "All the opponents of the coup d'état carried out by the criminal government, which threatens to harm all citizens of Israel wherever they are, have gathered," the organizers of the demonstration said
Jan 7, 2023
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
In 2021, 1.95 million poor people lived in Israel, including 853.8 thousand children and 212.4 thousand people of retirement age. This is according to the National Insurance data, as part of the annual poverty report published on Thursday morning. The report shows that in Israel every fifth person is defined as poor. This is an increase compared to 2020, when there were 1,877,594 people below the poverty line in Israel, but this increase was mainly caused by the increase in the "poverty line" itself, and this is due to the increase in the standard of living after the first difficult year...
Jan 12, 2023
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
In a secret election, the Knesset elected opposition representative MK Karin Elharar (Yesh Atid) as a member of the committee for selecting judges. The plenary rejected the candidacy of MK Tali Gottlieb (Likud). Since Gottlieb was the only candidate of the coalition, she was left without a representative in the committee, which means that in 30 days the Knesset will convene again to elect a representative of the coalition
Jun 14, 2023
